Thursday, May 2, 2013

IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 enhanced Liberty profile

Introduces a new Liberty profile-only solution. The WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core edition is built to leverage the lightweight and dynamic aspects of the Liberty profile. Scoped to the capabilities of Web Profile applications, the new edition is ideal for lightweight production servers.

Enhancements to the Liberty profile are as follows:
• Certification to the JEE 6 Web Profile, providing the assurance that applications leverage standards-compliant programming models
• Additional programming models such as web services that enable the expansion of Liberty profile applications beyond web applications
• New messaging capabilities, including support for JMS and message-driven beans, and a new single server message provider
• Ability to add Liberty features through a new system programming interface, enabling the customization of Liberty profile capabilities to meet your business needs through insertion of custom Liberty features
• Support for the NoSQL database MongoDB, a scalable, well-performing, and easy-to-use document-style NoSQL database
• Enhancement to security support, such as federated repositories, custom user registry, trust association interceptor, password hashing, and encryption of passwords in server configurations, which improves security for Liberty application deployments
• High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) for Liberty servers, which enables better administration and serviceability
• New Liberty administration features
• Clustering of server instances
• Support for caching via the WebSphere Web Cache (DynaCache) and distributed caching with WebSphere eXtreme Scale
• Ability to install the entitled WebSphere Application Server edition on developer
machines for development and unit testing purposes•
• WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 tooling bundles updated with Rational®
Application Developer (RAD) V9 and the WebSphere Application Server Developer
Tools (WDT) V8.5.5